| BROOKMYRE | Christopher, author of the novels Not the End of the World and Country of the Blind (9) |
| ARCHER | Jeffrey, author of the novel Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (6) |
| ORIGINAL | Novel, not the translation |
| DEATHONTHENILE | Poirot novel not the headline? That's odd (5,2,3,4) |
| SEMIFINAL | Crashed in flames around capital of Italy? It's not the end of the contest (9) |
| ISHERWOOD | Christopher, author of the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin (9) |
| COURTSHIP | It's not the end of the affair for Judge Small in Vogue (9) |
| TOLERABLE | Not the end of the world |
| WELLS | H. G. -; author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds and the non-fiction A Short History of the World (5) |
| DAREDEVIL | Comic-book alter ego of the blind lawyer Matt Murdock |
| EYEUP | Carefully consider status of the king of the country of the blind? (3,2) |
| FRY | Christopher, author of the verse drama The Lady's Not For Burning (3) |
| END | Churchill's El Alamein victory speech on November 10, 1942: "It is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the ... of the beginning" |
| HAMPTON | Christopher, author of the plays Total Eclipse and When Did You Last See My Mother? (7) |
| THEEND | Churchill's declared, "It is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps ... of the beginning" (3,3) |
| SOLEMNITY | Novel not with Smiley is serious stuff (9) |
| MIROS | 'The Birth of the World' and 'The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers,' e.g. |
| ARCTIC | One of the five oceans of the world - and one of the coldest |
| ERASMUS | Theologian who said "In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| NEWTONIAN | Novel not turning Scot to physics |
